Science and Technics / Technology & engineering

Architecture and Justice: Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm

by Jonathan Simon & Nicholas Temple

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice,...

Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam

by David Hall & Fred Dibnah

Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery...

Advanced Water Injection for Low Permeability Reservoirs: Theory and Practice

by Ran Xinquan

Concise and readable, Water Injection For Low Permeability Reservoirs provides operators with the proper workflow systems and engineering techniques for designing, planning and implementing  water injection...

Polarimetric Scattering and SAR Information Retrieval

by Ya-Qiu Jin & Feng Xu

Taking an innovative look at Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), this practical reference fully covers new developments in SAR and its various methodologies and enables readers to interpret SAR imagery

An essential...

Radio Resources Management in Wimax: From Theoretical Capacity to System Simulations

by Emmanuelle Vivier & Guillaume Vivier

WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. This...

Extractive Metallurgy 1: Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics

by Alain Vignes

This book is dedicated to the processes of mineral transformation, recycling and reclamation of metals, for the purpose of turning metals and alloys into a liquid state ready for pouring.

Even though "process...

Formulation

by Anne-Marie Pens?-Lh?ritier

This book deals with the formulation of industrial products Its field of application goes from food-processing industry to the industry of elastomers showing that the principles of development follow always...

Vibration in Continuous Media

by Jean-Louis Guyader

Three aspects are developed in this book: modeling, a description of the phenomena and computation methods. A particular effort has been made to provide a clear understanding of the limits associated with each...

Sustainable Facades: Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes

by Ajla Aksamija

Buildings are the largest consumers of energy, and their facades present a significant opportunity for energy conservation. Written by an associate and head of the research lab at Perkins + Will, this book presents...

The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life

by Bill Stumpf

With The Ice Palace That Melted Away, Bill Stumpf, the designer of the first ergonomic chair, addresses the symbiotic relationship between design and the way we live, the often deadening effect of technology,...

Bio-Nanomaterials: Designing Materials Inspired by Nature

by Wolfgang Pompe, Gerhard R?del & Hans-J?rgen Weiss

Written by authors from different fields to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this book guides the reader through new nano-materials processing inspired by nature.

Structured around general...

Theoretical Aerodynamics

by Ethirajan Rathakrishnan

Theoretical Aerodynamics is a user-friendly text for a full course on theoretical aerodynamics. The author systematically introduces aerofoil theory, its design features and performance aspects, beginning with...

Microwaves in Nanoparticle Synthesis: Fundamentals and Applications

by Satoshi Horikoshi & Nick Serpone

For the first time, this comprehensive handbook presents the emerging field of microwave technology for the synthesis of nanoparticles. Divided into three parts--fundamentals, methods, and applications--it covers...

Coordination Chemistry in Protein Cages: Principles, Design, and Applications

by Takafumi Ueno & Yoshihito Watanabe

Sets the stage for the design and application of new protein cages

Featuring contributions from a team of international experts in the coordination chemistry of biological systems, this book enables readers to...

BRC Global Standard for Food Safety

by The Brtish Retail Consortium & The Stationery Office

This Standard provides a framework for food manufacturers to assist the production f safe food and to manage product quality to meet customers' requirements. Certification against this standard is recognised...

Effective Microbiological Sampling of Food Processing Environments

by Dr John Holah

This guideline provides essential advice to help technical personnel to devise suitable and effective plans to systematically sample the food environment, ensuring the safety of food produced in that environment....

Guidelines for the hygienic design, construction and layout of food processing factories

by Dr John Holah

This guideline has been created to help food and construction industry personnel to identify and consider the main hygiene-related factors that need to be taken into account when designing, building and refurbishing...

Manual of food hygiene methods for the food and drink industry

by Dr John Holah

This guideline is an essential reference for factory laboratory, quality assurance, technical or hygiene staff. It provides detailed descriptions of hygiene methods for the environmental sampling of surfaces,...

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff

"If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism."

This is the moment we've been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas...

Anorexia

by Gerald Litwack

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal...